School Board Considers Sale of McKinley Elementary
The district is looking to put the shuttered building up for sale. But charter schools and boarding schools would have the first opportunity to buy it.
The Lakewood School Board considered a proposal Tuesday night that would sell the shuttered McKinley Elementary School. However, the board decided to discuss the idea further. Superintendent Jeff Patterson, who proposed the plan, told Lakewood Patch that even if the district wanted to reopen the building, it’d cost between $380,000 to 1.2 million — perhaps more than the property is worth. Closed several years ago, the 56,000-square-foot building costs the district about $40,000 to keep up — including utilities and general maintenance. Built in 1918, McKinley Elementary School sits on a 2.77-acre parcel in an area desirable to developers. The property was assessed at $1.1 million in November. “What could we possibly use that building for…
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